Answers sparring with doubt,
heavy padding masks the will.
The voice cut at the neck,
floats above a shrill.
Too many breaks in a china day.
Your eyes memorizing both sides,
Your fingertips pause above the jagged edges.
© 2010
Archive for March, 2010
“to squeeze or not or squeeze…”
Posted in Photo, Quotes with tags janet flanner, L. K. Thayer's Poetry Juice Bar, L. K. Thayer’s Foto Fetish, photography, poets, squeeze, writers on March 31, 2010 by lkthayer
“Tomato Juice” by Yevgenia Watts
Posted in Artwork, Guest Squeeze, Quotes with tags art, fruit, L. K. Thayer's Poetry Juice Bar, love, painting, tomatos, Watercolored Hands, Yevgenia Watts on March 31, 2010 by lkthayer
(Tomatos…the forgotten fruit.)
“I love tomatos and tomatos love me back!” 
Original Watercolor Painting & Quote by Yevgenia Watts
Visit her website at WATERCOLORED HANDS
© 2010
“The Paper Sleeve” by Jaymie Thorne
Posted in Guest Squeeze, Photo, Poetry with tags handle with care, Jaymie Thorne's Personal Musing's, L. K. Thayer's Poetry Juiced Bar, Lyrics, mood, music, record player, sensitivity, song, turntable on March 31, 2010 by lkthayer
i watched him place it
with care upon the player
turntable spinning backwards
taking me back in time
raised arms steeped us in music
looking for hidden pictures
on the colorful covers
adding doodles to make it mine
lyrics repeating until
memorized, the song was owned
listening for secret sounds
that made it onto the tracks
switching speeds to change the mood
lip synching to known scratches
all the things he would never know
in quite the same way
i love that he took great care
slipping it back in the paper sleeve
All Rights Reserved
© 2010
“Fruit For Thought…”
Posted in Fruit For Thought, Photo with tags apple, arthur Miller, challenge, doomed, L. K. Thayer’s Foto Fetish, L. K. Thayer’s Poetry Juice Bar, photography, tree of knowledge on March 31, 2010 by lkthayer
Walt Whitman
Posted in Photo, Quotes with tags bird, compassion, helpless, not judging, photography, poet, VC Ferry, Walt Whitman on March 30, 2010 by lkthayer
“Latin for the Motorman’s Daughter” by Sarah Mac Donald
Posted in Guest Squeeze, Photo, Poetry with tags daughter, education, fondle, L. K. Thayer's Poetry Juice Bar, Latin, molested, Sarah Mac Donald, school on March 30, 2010 by lkthayer
I have fallen in love with Latin again.
Latin words – miserere nobis, Deo gratias,
Agnus Dei, pax vobiscum.
I studied Latin in high school.
It was supposed to be good for me, a classical education.
Appropriate for the motorman’s daughter,
who knew all the stops on the IRT
and rode the Dinky to school.
The teacher talked of declining verbs.
Decline – what does that mean?
Present indicative – I’d like to decline
you touching my breast.
Subjunctive – I would rather
you take your hand out of my pants.
Pluperfect – it would have been pluperfect
If you’d have gotten the hell out of here.
I memorized it all – amo, amas, amat.
all her words had different meanings to me.
Who loves me? Does he love me?
Does anyone love me?
But there was no perfect in my life, much less pluperfect.
I wasn’t loved. I hadn’t been loved.
I would not ever have been loved.
I learned it all.
I learned to decline verbs
And roll myself into a ball when someone touched me.
I learned the indicative of touch,
The perfect of grope,
The subjunctive of fondle,
The pluperfect of stroke.
All in Latin,
perfect for the motorman’s daughter.
© 2010
Robert Frost
Posted in Photo, Quotes with tags branching out, discovery, L. K. Thayer's Poetry Juice Bar, L. K. Thayer’s Foto Fetish, photography, poem, Poetry, Robert Frost, writing on March 30, 2010 by lkthayer
“Change” by L. K. Thayer
Posted in Photo, Poetry with tags change, L. K. Thayer’s Poetry Juice Bar, photography, seasons, spring, VC Ferry, winter on March 30, 2010 by lkthayer
you landed like a carrier pigeon
in my heart
opening it like a valentine
with shadows and light
illuminating my way
with a click and a new gaze
now as seasons change
and the ice of Winter has
taken it’s toll
Spring arrives without you
and I must continue
© 2010
